national observer

As Fort McMurray continues to smoulder in the wake of raging wildfires, an Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) expert is grimly assessing the nation’s losses from climate instability. If there is one lesson to be learned from such disasters, it’s that governments and homeowners can all take steps to be more prepared when tragedy strikes, […]

The timing of the snow melt — and quantity of the snow that melts — is particularly important to the West Coast province, which sources much of its drinking water from mountain reservoirs topped up annually by melted snow. If the snow melts much earlier than usual, B.C. could face drought later on in the […]